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Twitter says it has upgraded its embeddable tweets to allow better showcasing of tweeted images. The move comes a few months after Facebook rolled out embeddable status updates with photos. "We've put the photo front and center, with a bigger and bold visual focus on the media," Brian Ellin, Twitter's project manager, wrote in a blog post explaining the upgrade.

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Small-business owners increasingly are using social media to drum up business, but some say they hate every minute of it. Tanya Lotzof of Chicago Speech Spot says she's pouring too much time and money into social media tools that she doesn't understand how to use. "I didn't go to school for this," Lotzof says. "This is not what I do. If I knew what I was doing, I would do it."

Wild pigs have been spotted roaming the suburbs of Atlanta, menacing residents to such an extent that some people say they're afraid to spend time on the ground floor of their homes, in case pigs attack. Officials have asked hunters to target the animals, which are also known to target farmers' crops.

Twitter co-founder Evan Williams will probably be the biggest winner when Twitter goes public, with his 15% stake likely to make him a billionaire, Douglas MacMillan and Ari Levy write. Other investors, including celebrities such as Richard Branson and Ashton Kutcher, also stand to make big bucks from the stock offering -- but some early employees who left without retaining ownership stakes won't be so lucky. "I call it my billion-dollar MBA, because I got nothing," says Dom Sagolla, one of the network's first employees.

People with failing organs are turning to Facebook to drum up publicity and find potential donors, in a trend that some health care professionals fear could subvert the existing organ-allocation system. "It's not hard to imagine that if you're attractive and young and appealing, it's easier to get people to donate to you than if you're short or ugly or have a hunchback. And that's not the way we want the system to work," transplant surgeon Michael Shapiro says.

The Washington Post's revised application for Apple's iPad accommodates readers interested in seeing their newspaper reproduced in digital form and those wanting a personalized service, writes Lauren Johnson. The app's Forum feature "lets consumers customize news via Twitter. Readers can browse through categories such as politics or sports to find hubs of tweeted content from journalists, athletes or local media," writes Johnson. The first edition is sponsored by Norfolk Southern.